NJWS 2018 – 2019 Season

Made In America

Featured Soloist

Prelude Concert 7:30PM

New Jersey City University Symphony of Winds and Percussion Patrick Burns, Director

Don’t miss the opening concert of the NJWS 2018 – 2019 season, “Made in America”, featuring music by celebrated American composers. The NJWS will also be performing works of Leonard Bernstein whose centenary is being observed around the world.

Because of the Brave

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Featured Soloists

Kristen Plumley – Soprano

Richard Summers – Clarinet

Prelude Concert 2:30PM

Hackensack High School Band – Lisa MacVicar, Director

The NJWS celebrates and honors all who have served. Marches by John Philip Sousa and E.F. Goldman, a festive arrangement of our National Anthem and a musical salute to all the men and women of our Armed Forces past and present will be featured.

Ridgewood TubaChristmas III

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Prelude Concert 7:30PM

Brookside Middle School – Collette Mather, Director

Featured Soloists

Michael Salzman – Narrator/Tuba

Robert Sacchi – Tuba

It’s not only a holiday favorite, but it’s now a NJWS tradition. Michael Salzman will return as narrator and tuba soloist. The NJWS will be joined by tuba and euphonium musicians from the area who will be playing selections that are traditionally performed annually at the TubaChristmas concert at Rockefeller Center.

Prelude Concert 7:30PM

Midland Park High School Band – David Marks, Director

Featured Soloists

A not to be missed concert featuring Christopher Martin, the brilliant principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic. The NJWS will perform music by American composers who have been closely associated with Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony. Music by Aaron Copland, John Williams and George Gershwin will be featured on this concert.

11th Annual Side By Side

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Featured Soloist

Youth Soloist Competition Winner Jonathan Yu – Clarinet

Prelude Concert 7:30PM

Northern Valley Old Tappan High School Band – Amy Wilcox, Director

The 2018 – 2019 season comes to a close with over 50 of the finest High School wind, brass and percussion students from northern New Jersey joining the New Jersey Wind Symphony in concert. This program will also feature the winner of the 2018 – 2019 Youth Soloist Competition now in its 11th year.